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...fifth Congress of Biological Standardization in Jerusalem that, while there have been relatively few cases of paralytic polio among those vaccinated with live-virus vaccines, some of the virus strains, after they pass through the human body, become more virulent. It is possible that contact with virus-infected excrement could spread polio to unvaccinated persons. His recommendation: until the stability of the virus can be fully determined, live-virus vaccine use should be limited to small test groups that can be isolated for 30 to 40 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...King of Morocco. That meeting, if it takes place, would imply high-level Moslem approval of recent French progress-civil as well as military-in Algeria. But another replied, symbolizing the many Algerians yet to be won over: "You are not fit to serve as the recipient for the excrement of our liberation army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE TURN IN ALGERIA | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...nerves. The most effective method is a vicious appeal to voodoo believers, who are convinced that Duvalier is powerful because of ouangas that he planted about Port-au-Prince. As every practitioner of voodoo knows, the surest way to deprive a charm of its power is to apply human excrement. Last week the President's enemies went after what was supposed to be one of his strongest ouangas: the grave of his father, a tailor, who died last year. Grave robbers pried open the above-ground family tomb in Port-au-Prince's cemetery, hauled out the coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Hexed President | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...black limbs by the gutter fires and furnace spit. We should bottle the night, prone and passive, siphon it into leather canteen flasks, take swigs of it while sunning ourselves by the river, savour it after a French loave-lunch, rub it on our arm in lieu of excrement...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: DOWN and OUT in Cambridge | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

...M.P.s began to arrive, this mixed mob went berserk. The great Edmund Burke received no worse than shrieks of "obscene invective," but the Duke of Northumberland was beaten up, the Lord Chief Justice stripped of his wig. The Bishops of Lincoln and Lichfield were "plastered with mud and excrement"; the Archbishop of York was shoved about until he agreed to cry out "No Popery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Zion's Bagpiper | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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